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Message of Healing
COMMUTER CACHET We go inside Metra’s exclusive Car 553
A Japanese flag from World War II is returned to soldier’s family THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
A Japanese flag from World War II — discovered during construction at New Trier High School’s Winnetka Campus, in 2015 — was recently reunited with the family of the fallen soldier who carried it into battle. Thanks to the efforts of New Trier faculty members, Japanese language students and a nonprofit dedicated to returning battle flags to families in Japan, 90-year-old Teruo Shimizu now has a cherished memento from his brother, who died in battle in 1944 at age 21. The nonprofit OBON SOCIETY returned the flag last summer after using clues from the flag and New Trier’s research to locate the family of the soldier, Tokichi Shimizu, in Japan. In the months that followed followed, New Trier Japanese language students and members of the Japanese Culture Club — inspired by the messages they had exchanged with Teruo Shimizu — raised $1,766 for OBON, an Oregon-based nonprofit that works to provide opportunities for reconciliation between families through the return of personal items taken during war. After learning that Tokichi Shimizu’s family had been located, current and Continued on PG 10
Four members in Car 553 on the Metra North Line. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER BY DAVID A. F. SWEET THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
When Katherine Templin moved to Lake Forest from Chicago a few winters ago, the train commute downtown and back in the dark became a bleak part of her day. Then, a friend introduced her to Car 553.
“There were tables to spread out and work, and there was hot coffee available in the morning,” Templin says. “I tried it for a week or so, and I was hooked.” Amid the thousands of miles of rail tracks in the United States, Car 553 is the only operating membership commuter car rolling through towns. Tables in the back — the site
of bridge games in the past — are used in the 21st century by members such as Templin to type on laptops. Relaxing arm chairs greet members in the front, and they sink in to read their newspapers or books, undisturbed by the boarding announcements or cacophonous Continued on PG 10
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